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(No ModeL) v H. HOUGH.

NECK YOKE ATTAGHMEN-T.

No. 250,919. Patented Dec. 13,1881.

l a z e WITNESSES INVENTOR:

ATTORNEYS;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRISON HOUGH, DARLINGTON, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND LEWIS T.LILLIE, OF SAME PLACE.

N EC K-YOKE ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,919, dated December13, 1881,

Application filed October 6, 1881.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRISON HOUGH, of Darlington, in the county ofLafayette and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Neck -Y0ke Attachments; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings,forming part ofthisspecification,

in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved neck-yokeattachment. Fig. 2 is a bottomplan view of same.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for preventing; awagon-tongue from accidentally becoming detached from the neckyoke anddropping to the ground; and it consist in the peculiar construction andarrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, a represents a wagon-tongue provided withthe holdback b, both of the usual construction.

0 represents a spring safety-hook, the inner end of which is secured tothe under face of the tongue, preferably by screws. The spring-hook c isprovided with a slot, (1, through which the holdback passes, the tensionof the spring-hook causing its hook e to bear against the tongue 0 anear its outer end.

h represents the ring of the neck-yoke, of the ordinary construction.

k represents a ring inserted in the loop of the ordinary holdback, toact as a stop for the spring safety-hook c, or prevent the safetyhookfrom springing down too low in case it should accidentally be caught andforced down.

(No model.)

In practice the ring of the neck-yoke is slipped on the tonguein theusual manner,when it will spring back or force down the safety- 0 bookand pass behind it, and if the neck-yoke is pulled forward it wedges thehook tighter against the tongue, and the hook must be sprung back byhand in order to remove the ring of the neck-yoke. 5

By this construction it will be seen that all liability of the neck-yokebecoming detached fromthetongueisobviated,theringoftheneckyokebeingpreventedfromslippingofftheouter v end of the tongue by the hook, and prevented fromslipping backward by the holdback, and that the spring safety-hook canreadily be applied to a tongue with the ordinary holdback, b, in commonuse, by simply attachingmysafetyhookto the underface of thetongue withscrews and placing a ring in the loop of the holdback, thus renderingthe construction extremely simple, cheap, and effectivein preventing thedropping of the tongue, and adapting its employment to ordinarywagon-tongues. 6c

I claim as my invention- The combination, with a wagon-tongue providedwith a neck-yoke ring, h, and holdback I), having ring k, of thespring-hook c, secured at its inner end to the under face ofthe tongue,and provided with a slot, d, for the passage of the holdback,substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

HARRISON HOUGH.

Witnesses:

ROBERT F. DOBSON, O. F. OSBORN.

